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Mayank Sharma is the founder and Managing Director of GigaNodes (GigaNode Technologies Private Limited), an Indian hosting company providing VPS, game server and dedicated server hosting from data centres in Jaipur, Noida and Mumbai, with game servers also in Dubai. He writes about VPS hosting, game servers and server infrastructure.

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